618 Messrs. Sclater a«c? Mackwortli-Praed o?i [Ibis, 



This bird has not previously been recorded from the 

 Sudan, but was obtained about 150 miles west of Yambio 

 by Bohndorff, at Zemio, in the Niam-Niam country. It 

 is a West African form ranging fron\ Seuegambia to 

 Gaboon. 



Cinnyris habessinicus habessinicus. 



Cinnyris habessinicus (Hempr. & Ehr.) ; Shelley, B, A. ii. 

 p. 46; Butler, 1909, p. 391. 



[B. coll.j 6 Erkowit Mcb., 7 Khor Arbat May, 1 Jebel 

 Okokreb Mch. R.S. 



[C. & L. coll.] 4 Sinkat Mch., 1 Kamobsana Dec. R.S. 



Cinnyris chloropygius orphogaster. 



Cinnyris chloropygia orjjhogaster Beichenow^ O. M. vii. 

 1899, p. 169 : Bukoba^ Victoria Nyanza. 



[Chr. coll.] 1 Yambio Mch. E.G. 



We are able to identify the following races of C chloro- 

 pygius from the material in the Museum : — 



1. C. c. CHLOROPYGIUS (Jard.) : Type-locality, Niger river. 

 Wing under 50 mm., and belly a dark olive. 



Range. From the Niger to Angola. Gold Coast birds are 

 intermediate betv/een this and the following. 



2. C. c. KEMPi O.-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. 1910, 

 p. 329 : Sierra Leone. About the same size, but with 

 much brighter olive underparts. 



Range. Sierra Leone and Senegal. 



3. C. c. ORPHOGASTER, Vide supra. Resembling C. c. 

 chloropygius, but considerably larger. Wing well over 50, 

 average 53 mm. 



Range. Lake region to the Welle and the Bahr el 

 Ghazal. 



4. C. c. BiNEscHENsis Ncumaun (O. M. 1903, p. 183 : 

 Upper Sobat valley, Abyssinia). W^e have seen the type of 

 this subspecies now in the Tring Museum and it agrees with 

 Neumann's diagnosis, but it is apparently only known from 



